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Forget Insurance: Start a Healthcare Fund for Your Pet

One sad fact about adopting a pet is that you will likely outlive your beloved animal and that means you will have to pay for their healthcare in their dying days.  When our cat Jack died, 99% of the money we spent for his well-being was used over the last 90 days of his life in an attempt to battle his kidney disease and failing heart and to then provide him the kindest possible end.

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Intranet Solution for the Health Insurance Industry

by Jim Roach & Jon Sund

March 5, 1998

Acknowledgements

We want to express a special thanks to Stephen Lankton, MSW, DAHB, for his behavioral science analysis, input regarding the interface design, and his review and comments.

Background

This paper assumes that the reader is acquainted with the following terms:

World Wide Web (WWW), Internet / Intranet
HTML, HTTP, and CGI
Portable Document Format (PDF) from Adobe
Media Independent Publishing

Media independent publishing provides for the delivery of knowledge to the point of need in the media that suites the requester. This can be accomplished through a number of way:

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Media Independent Publishing in the Health Insurance Industry

by Jon Sund & Jim Roach

This paper is based on the knowledge and experience gained while providing consulting services to the health care insurance market sector over the last ten years. During this ten-year period the health insurance market has gone through radical change, customer expectations have expanded, new legal requirements imposed, and technology made quantum leaps. The pace of change offers opportunity for the nimble, while challenging their ability to exercise cost containment.

In this paper existing data is consolidated then applied to the area of Media Independent Publishing (MIP), in this case the dissemination of provider information, is a strategy that offers implementers an opportunity to:

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